Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild

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Nancy presented a wonderful program that showed her progression of making functional baskets which then evolved into sculptural baskets and just for fun pieces. She showed us many styles, techniques and materials that she uses. Nancy began weaving and spinning before learning to make baskets.  She stumbled upon Judy Anthrop's Antique store around 1977, at the time Judy was also selling spinning wheels and weaving looms.  She was part of the original group of spinners called the Fiber Arts Group of Holland. This was later changed to Lakeshore Fiber Arts.  Her first basket class was from Priscilla, but she didn't  get to involved into making lots of baskets until she moved to Vermont and took a class in 1989.  At one time she went to three conventions, in Vermont, Michigan and later North Carolina where they moved from Vermont.

Nancy explained the many fibers such as rattan, reed, splint, cane, willow, hickory bark, birch bark, pine needles, bamboo, and even wire and cheesecloth.  She will incorporate just about anything into her creative baskets.  She now works with pine needles a lot, that seems to be her favorite.

Paper wrapped reed

She uses molds for some to get them more precise.

Willow fish basket and bamboo basket made in a class, very hard 
to do she said.

Turtle made out of a gourd.

These tiny baskets are my favorites. Ash.

Driftwood and Horsehair.

Birch Bark with birch bark top.

Pine needle

Cheesecloth on wire.

Nancy brought a few of her favorite books, above.  One of her go to places to order is:

Royal Wood Basket Supplies

Show and Tell

Janice

Wonderful knitting experiments.

Priscilla

Priscilla brought free form crochet top, and several
wonderful woven pieces.

Sue F.

Sue enjoys free form slow stitching.

Sue C.

Interesting black and white piece

Something new for Sue, white work shibori

Marie

Marie made some fun scarves using water soluble stabilizer
and lots of stitching.

Her bird hanging fit perfectly ontop of one of her Mother's
quilts.  

Kay

Kay enjoys picking up special woven articles from sales.

Cyndi

Cyndi showed us lots of felted pieces, vessels,
books, wall hangings, great little trees.

Julie

Julie showed us her felted and stitched bowls

And her sweater remake.

This is from a class she teaches on photo transfer.

Lin

Lin had fun making these thread bowls from a free class
by Meredith Woolnough.  She also experimented with 
some other fibers.

Jan

Jan made this vest out of leftover drapery fabric.
She then remade the sweater out of a mens large. 
Pretty clever.

Barb

Barb loves making these Fabulous faces by Freddy Moran 
and Jean Impey
Lots of face on Pinterest under their names.

Melanie   

Melanie showed us some of her clothing remakes
out of vintage items.

 Coleen

Coleen amazes us with the detail she puts in her rugs.
This one she put some personal items in it.

Jennifer

. Square Headed Woman in Paper Bark dress

  Screenshot of Paper Bark:

  - crumpled & shoe polished

  - crumpled & lipstick polished

  - line folded & lipstick polished

 Arrow smocked sleeve with tutorial grid showing how to sew it

       3-D smocked satin after sewing and Smocked satin after pressing flat

Our silent auction was a great success again.